Lesa’s hiking backpack weighs 5 pounds less than 1/2 the weight of alani’s hiking backpack. write an expression to describe the weight of lewa’s backpack. how many pounds does lewa’s backpack weight if alani’s backpack weights 36 pounds ?

13

Step-by-step explanation:

So first you divide 36 and 1/2 to figure out have of alani backpack, which gets you 18 then you subtract 18-5 which gets you 13 and that's your answer.

15 batches are the most you can make

step-by-step explanation:

a.

step-by-step explanation:

step 1 distribute 2 to every term in the parentheses

step 2 add 10 on both sides of the equal sign